Venues similar to Ferdi Baba

A seaside lobster house run by a host who has held the room for years

Wood-fire day fish and herb meze with your feet near the sand at the Çark Beach bay

The village's oldest rakı-fish table, run by the same family since 1950

All-day kitchen on the yacht slips, French-leaning breakfast through midnight cocktails, run by a working chef line rather than a brand operator

The Kabak family's marina-side outpost where the day's catch is read off a board and the rakı arrives without asking

The 1975 Dalyan harbour fish house that defines what a Çeşme balık restoranı should taste like

Michelin Guide-listed family osteria a few streets from the castle, serving day-boat fish and meze without the marina markup

A family-run raki-and-fish meyhane at the bazaar mouth where you bring your own bottle

Aegean meze read off both shores, served in a courtyard tucked between two 1850s Greek stone houses

Burakhan Akçe's open-air sharing room, modern Aegean small plates a careful step away from Kemalpaşa Caddesi's noise

Hacımemiş's quiet stone garden, a chef's Aegean address that has held the same Tire-sourced standard since 2010

An 1800s Hacımemiş courtyard under the olive trees, the village's most romantic stone-house dining room

A handmade Hacımemiş Aegean kitchen run by two women who wrote the modern Alaçatı home-cooking template

The original Şifne address of the Kabak fish dynasty, the quiet one, where the locals still go

Ilıca Hotel's open-deck Aegean room overlooking the thermal bay, the resort coast's most assured kitchen

Vineyard restaurant where Foça Karası, a 2,600-year-old grape, is served alongside Cabernet from the same hillside

Meltem Güner Atalay's hillside estate, night-harvest grapes, gravity-fed cellar, 20,000 bottles by hand

A late-arriving estate with the most accomplished vineyard kitchen on the Urla route, wood oven, Aegean-Italian menu

The peninsula's youngest serious estate, Chilean winemaking lineage, pre-phylloxera Carignan, panoramic terrace kitchen

Roberto Fracasso's Hacımemiş courtyard, the only Alaçatı oven where the pizzaiolo is actually Italian